Portland Emergency Rooms: How Long You Have to Wait
Friday, October 24, 2014
Related Slideshow: Portland Emergency Rooms: How Long You Have to Wait
The slides below show wait times at Portland ERs. The slides use the following terms:
- The wait time: How long a patient waits before being seen by a doctor, physician’s assistant, or nurse practitioner.
- Wait time before admission: How long emergency room visitors who later became inpatients had to wait before being admitted.
- Wait time before transfer: How long admitted patients had to wait before being transferred to their hospital bed.
- Time in ER: The total time a visitor who was not admitted as an inpatient spent in the emergency room.
- Percent who leave before being seen: Visitors who decided to leave before being seen by a doctor.
For all measures, lower numbers are better. The below hospitals are ranked from shortest to longest wait times. Data was taken from Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Service. It corresponds to information collected from fall 2012 to fall 2013.
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